RACES: Nude Negro

In response to an invitation, Antonio Salemme, Manhattan sculptor, shipped to the
Philadelphia Art Alliance last month for exhibition a large, black
bronze figure of Paul Robeson, famed Negro actor and singer, posed
nude.† Never shown, the statue was promptly shipped back to Sculptor
Salemme with this explanation: "The executive committee [of the Art
Alliance] expressed their apprehension of the consequences of
exhibiting such a nude figure in a public square, especially the figure
of a Negro, as the colored problem seems to be unusually great in
Philadelphia."